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Rh builders refuſed,” &c. is quoted ſix different times as ſpoken of our Saviour.

A laſtly, “the fruit of David’s body,” which God is ſaid, in the hundred and thirty-ſecond pſalm, to have promiſed that he would “place upon his throne,” is aſſerted, Acts ii. 30. to be Jeſus Chriſt.

I would be unreaſonable to ſuppoſe, that no parts of the pſalms may by us be ſpiritually applied, but ſuch as are already thus expreſsly applied for us by the inſpired writers. Let the believers of the truth conſider attentively a New Teſtament citation from the book of Pſalms; then let them as carefully read over, with a view to it, the pſalm from which it is taken, and ſee if it will not ſerve them as a key, wherewith to unlock the treaſures of eternal wiſdom; if it will not “open their eyes,” and ſhew them “wonderful things” in God’s law. When we are taught to conſider one verſe in a pſalm as ſpoken by Meſſiah, and there is no change of perſon, what can we conclude, but that he is the ſpeaker through the whole? In that caſe, the pſalm becomes at once as much transfigured, as the bleſſed perſon who is the grand ſubject of it, was, on the mount, when his countenance did ſhine as the ſun, and his raiment was white as ſnow. And if Meſſiah be the ſpeaker of one pſalm, what good reaſon can be given why another pſalm, where the